Shipwrecks
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Search for Shackleton's Antarctic Shipwreck Turns Back to Avoid Deadly Ice TrapThe wreck may be lying on the seafloor near the Larsen C Ice Shelf.
By Tom Metcalfe Published
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Remains of USS Hornet, Storied WWII Aircraft Carrier, Discovered at Bottom of South PacificBy Laura Geggel Published
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Why Archaeologists Used a 'Ray Gun' to Blast This Ancient Shipwreck PotteryTo trace the origins of ancient pottery, scientists used a method that sounds like it's borrowed from science fiction.
By Mindy Weisberger Published
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Shackleton's Lost Ship May Lie at the Bottom of Antarctica's Weddell SeaPolar explorer Shackleton abandoned the ship Endurance in 1915, after the vessel was crushed by sea ice.
By Tom Metcalfe Published
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Sunken 17th-Century 'Pirate Ship' Discovered, Alongside Gunpowder-Packed GrenadesThe ship, holding military stores, sank in a storm near Dollar Cove in April of 1684.
By Tom Metcalfe Published
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This Ship Sank Decades Ago. Now, a 3D Model Has Resurrected It.A digital 3D reconstruction has recreated a ship that sank in 1995.
By Mindy Weisberger Published
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An Underwater 'Ghost Fleet' of Shipwrecks Is On the Move, and Here's WhyNearly 200 military shipwrecks — dating as far back as the Revolutionary War and including ships from the Civil War and both World War I and World War II — were sunk to the bottom of a river.
By Mindy Weisberger Published
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World's Oldest Intact Shipwreck Found at the Bottom of the Black SeaThe vessel looks just like one depicted on a famous Greek vase.
By Stephanie Pappas Published
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Infamous Wreck of Ill-Fated Franklin Expedition Yields More Artifacts, But No Ship's LogHarsh conditions and thick ice kept divers out of Franklin's cabin.
By Megan Gannon Published
